Barry Mendel

Producer

BIOGRAPHY

Munich is a 2005 American-Canadian historical drama political thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli governments secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.Based on the book Vengeance about Yuval Aviv, who states he was a Mossad agent, Munich follows a squad of assassins as they track down and kill alleged members of the group Black September, which had kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.Shot in Malta, Budapest, Paris and New York City, Munich was a critical success but is also one of Spielbergs lowest-grossing films. It garnered positive reviews and five Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay (Kushner and Roth), Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn) and Best Original Score (John Williams). Its worldwide box office gross was $130,358,911.In 2017, the film was named the sixteenth Best Film of the 21st Century So Far by The New York Times.

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